Hale, Annie Riley. These Cults: An Analysis of the Foibles of Dr. Morris Fishbeins "Medical Follies" and Medical Practice in General, etc. New York. National Health Foundation, 1926.
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A few years ago (1915), Mr. Charles M. Higgins, author of
"Horrors of Vaccination Exposed," carried a continuous advertisement in one of
the large New York dailies, which conveyed a challenge to the new York State and
City Departments of Health, calling on them to open their records— juggled and
"doctored" as most of them were—and he would undertake to show the public from
them, "that there had been more deaths from vaccinia than from smallpox in the
State of New York every year for the past fifteen." Needless to say the
challenge was never accepted.
Mr. Higgins' challenge was inspired by the famous Loyster investigation of
the ravages of vaccination in the New York public schools of the smaller towns
and country districts, the result of which had just become known. Mr. James A.
Loyster, editor of a newspaper at Cazenovia, N. Y., lost his only son through
vaccination in 1914. Mr. Loyster stated in his report that he had consented to
the operation, that he had himself been vaccinated and believed in it; but the
boy's death got his attention. He determined to make a survey of the schools in
the rural districts and smaller cities—exclusive of Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo
and Greater New York—for the purpose of ascertaining the extent of similar
fatalities from vaccination among school children. He purposely left out the
larger cities because of the difficulty in canvassing them; and in order to
maintain an open-minded quest for facts, he says he refused to read any
anti-vaccination literature before starting on his inquiry. Mr. Loyster found
and verified 27 deaths and twice as many cases of serious disability from
vaccination among New York school children in that restricted area for the year
1914, getting names and addresses and in a number of cases photographs of the
victims—all of which were reproduced in Mr. Higgins' book. It is a reasonable
assumption that a canvass of the larger cities would have swelled the death-toll
twice over, and in the whole State of New York that year of 1914, there were
only three deaths from smallpox! ---These
Cults by Annie Riley Hale